The Lad and the Lion

Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1938. Very Good -. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1938. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.5cm); 317pp. Five plates including frontis, all present. Publisher's pebbled blue cloth with red debossed lettering. Red topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards are edgeworn with rubbing along joints, a few scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine faded and dulled with a couple vertical creases to cloth, bumping at tail, and chipping at head. Shallow biopredation along bottom edges of pastedowns, with a small bookseller's stamp ("Mitchell's Used Books") to rear pastedown. Toning to endpapers along glueline, with light toning and brief foxing to interior. Opens easily between a few gatherings, but binding is sound. Pages unmarked.

Originally published in two parts as a shorter (by 20,000 words) novelette in All-Story Weekly in the summer of 1917.

Zeuschner 235.